Ambitions were high and international sport notably absent when a summary of two years of research into sports integrity by 70 academic researchers was launched in Paris.

On May 15, at the Sport Integrity Forum, the Sorbonne-ICSS Research programme on Sports Integrity will present the results of their two-year long research programme into the scale and scope of match-fixing as well as the means to prevent, inform, educate and ensure good governance in the sports movement.

England has some way to go before Sport England’s goal of having a 25 % female representation in sports governance is fulfilled, a new survey shows. Presently, less than 50% of British sport’s governing bodies live up to this goal.

The FIFA Independent Governance Committee (IGC), led by Swiss professor Mark Pieth, has concluded its advisory review of the governance in football’s world governing body, FIFA, and the results are now available in a final report.

With evidence that the appetite for hosting major sports events may be waning, better governance is essential for safeguarding sport’s future, writes Rowland Jack, founder of I Trust Sport, a company working to improve governance in international sport.

The largest ever football conference in the United States drew interesting proposals for change at FIFA ahead of next year’s presidential election at the world body.

"It is only by submitting the IOC to the close scrutiny of the global public sphere that it might be coerced into enforcing its own constitution: The Olympic Charter," writes Antoine Duval in this comment piece, looking into the environmental legacy of the Sochi 2014 Games.

The decision by the governing body of cricket, the International Cricket Council (ICC) to give the ‘Big Three’ of cricket, India, England and Australia, a dominant position in the organisation is met by criticism from the sport’s stakeholders to Transparency International.